First of all, what beautiful green space *didn’t* Olmsted design? And you finally convinced me -- I signed up for Arnold’s newsletter and I’m pumped about it! 😁
Great advice to encourage someone you envy. It’s a good reminder that they have inner lives too and may also be in need of a positive word once in a while. Fun coincidence - I did a new upper body workout yesterday too. It’s fun to mix it up once in a while. Like, I’ve been doing seated rows on a cable machine and yesterday did bent over rows with dumbbells. I had to recruit everything to stabilize and it felt more like an RDL which was cool. Didn’t know Oliver Sacks was a lifter. That’s so cool.
I love Romanian Deadlifts! Bulgarian Split Squats not so much, but I'll be doing them on leg day. I've been complacent and avoiding single leg exercises.
They're *so good* for your core and lateral stability, tho! I strained my right psoas earlier in the summer, so have to avoid asymmetrical stuff for a while. I miss it. It's funny they are named for Eastern Europeans. Wonder what the history is there. . .
I'm guessing that these are exercises Americans saw eastern Europeans doing at the Olympics during the cold War or something.... but now I'm going down a wiki hole
I like that strategy of complimenting someone you envy. It’s like making soup or some similar “do something nice for someone else” when you’re depressed, which never fails to work for me, even if it’s hard to take the first step.
Reminds me a little of Ben Franklin's strategy of dealing with haters/political enemies by asking them for a favor, like borrowing a book, since he figured him owing them a favor in the future made them more likely to want to preserve his reputation & self in the present. Wily old coot was he. : )
First of all, what beautiful green space *didn’t* Olmsted design? And you finally convinced me -- I signed up for Arnold’s newsletter and I’m pumped about it! 😁
Let him pump you up! It's very health focused but it's never bullshit.
Great advice to encourage someone you envy. It’s a good reminder that they have inner lives too and may also be in need of a positive word once in a while. Fun coincidence - I did a new upper body workout yesterday too. It’s fun to mix it up once in a while. Like, I’ve been doing seated rows on a cable machine and yesterday did bent over rows with dumbbells. I had to recruit everything to stabilize and it felt more like an RDL which was cool. Didn’t know Oliver Sacks was a lifter. That’s so cool.
I love Romanian Deadlifts! Bulgarian Split Squats not so much, but I'll be doing them on leg day. I've been complacent and avoiding single leg exercises.
They're *so good* for your core and lateral stability, tho! I strained my right psoas earlier in the summer, so have to avoid asymmetrical stuff for a while. I miss it. It's funny they are named for Eastern Europeans. Wonder what the history is there. . .
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I'm guessing that these are exercises Americans saw eastern Europeans doing at the Olympics during the cold War or something.... but now I'm going down a wiki hole
Thanks so much for the share, Thomas. He sounds like a pretty decent guy : ) we need more of them...
I like that strategy of complimenting someone you envy. It’s like making soup or some similar “do something nice for someone else” when you’re depressed, which never fails to work for me, even if it’s hard to take the first step.
It's easy to stew, and those are good strategies for breaking out of it.
Reminds me a little of Ben Franklin's strategy of dealing with haters/political enemies by asking them for a favor, like borrowing a book, since he figured him owing them a favor in the future made them more likely to want to preserve his reputation & self in the present. Wily old coot was he. : )
That's positively Machiavellian. But I like it.